Destinations

Everything we found on Roatán beyond the beach: animal parks, zipline courses, boat tours, and the local guides worth calling twice.

Every beach on Roatán a family can reach, east to west, with what each one actually costs. Most are free. The paid ones will let you in for the price of lunch, if you know to ask.

What it cost our family of five to live on Roatán for a month. Rent, utilities, groceries, phones, and the real total, with every figure what we paid.

We didn't plan to stop in Albuquerque. A trailer breakdown left us at Isleta Lakes RV Park for two weeks we never intended to spend, and it turned into one of the stops we're most glad happened to us.

We left Albuquerque in March, stopping a night or two here and there, before we landed in Forney, Texas, to visit family.

We came for dry air and a warm winter and found a river town that reveals itself slowly.

We came to Scofield for a ranch project in the mountains above town and ended up staying a month, tucked into a cool, quiet corner of central Utah that most travelers never find.

We pulled into Gold Beach in late October, during the off-season, and stayed five weeks. It was one of the top places we researched before going full-time, and this stay left us thinking it could be home one day.

We planned a week in Crescent City for Thanksgiving with family. We stayed almost a month, pulled in by quiet beaches, close redwoods, and a coast that felt calmer than the town's noisier edges let on.

We landed in Sekiu almost by accident after our plans for Forks fell through, and ended up staying six weeks on the edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It turned out to be one of the best surprises of the trip.

After five moves in twelve days, we stopped in Forks and found eleven days of rainforest, tide pools, and the rugged coastline of La Push, our base camp for exploring the Olympic Peninsula.

We came to Astoria for a family reunion and stayed inside Fort Stevens State Park, close enough to join in but quiet enough for Hyrum to stay regulated. We kept coming back, and two weeks later we still hadn't seen enough of it.